Dinner was great as you and your wife gazed into each other’s eyes across a candlelit table while the blowing snow whirled and howled outside creating a spinning backdrop of white on black in the window. Now, as they lock the door behind you, it’s time to go home. At the car, you open and hold the door for her while you wonder how you were ever so fortunate. Then, you slide behind the wheel feeling

How confident are you when you drive your car? No, it’s not about yourself; how confident are you with your car? Will it start when you want it to? Will it breakdown and strand you somewhere? Will a mechanical failure put you in danger? Will you car constantly take big bites out of your budget?Maybe you haven’t thought about these questions; you've assumed everything is fine. Is it? If everything

Award reflects company’s consistently high level of customer servicePerformance Unlimited Inc has earned the service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award, reflecting an exemplary year of service provided to members of the local services marketplace and consumer review site in 2014.“Performance Unlimited Inc is thrilled to receive this 2014 Angie’s List Super

Drivers in McHenry County have generally welcomed changes in the price of gasoline. Of course, that’s because the price has generally come down of late. The hope is that the trend in lower gasoline prices at the pump will continue.The price of gasoline at the pump in McHenry County has moved away from the $4-per-gallon range and is now lower than $3, sometimes even lower than $2.50. This welcome

There was a time when car owners changed their own oil. Some did tune-ups and other maintenance and repairs to their vehicles. Those days, however are pretty well past.Cars are increasingly computerized. The skills required to repair and maintain a vehicle are increasingly technical, too. If the person working on a car doesn’t have the proper training they could do more harm than good.Safety is also

Spring made an appearance a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, winter made a repeat performance and beat spring back for a while. For many of us here in McHenry County, that was discouraging news. We were ready for spring. We were even eager for spring.Many mothers and fathers here in McHenry County have a very good reason for welcoming the arrival of spring; they’ve noticed that their children

Have you ever taken a good look at the roads down South? They’re like silken asphalt carpets. Cars don’t so much as drive on them as they seem to glide on them. That’s hardly the case here in McHenry County. Here, we bounce and jolt from one pothole to another. If our roads are asphalt carpets, they’re more like torn and tattered rugs.The winters badly abuse our roads in McHenry County. And,

There are some in the auto repair industry who are cut from an older bolt of cloth. They’re gruff and short on patience. Their customer service skills are almost nonexistent. It often seems they’re a little annoyed when asked to explain the technical problems with a customer’s car in layman terms.Today, there’s no good reason that someone would have to put up with that kind of treatment. Most

Is that a whistle from under the hood? Maybe it’s more of a grinding noise? Whatever it is, it’s annoying, isn’t it? What if it’s more than annoying? Well, maybe it will go away.It’s never a good idea to ignore unusual sounds coming from your vehicle. A car is designed with the expectation that it will make certain noises. When unusual noises are heard, they’re clues to something mechanical.

He was thrilled with the used truck he had just bought. The lift kit, the big-beefy tires: it was a monster rolling down the highway. And, when he took it off road, as he planned to do this coming weekend, he expected it to take the roughest terrain in stride. While imagining the truck clawing through mud and over hills, he hit a minor bump on the highway. Though he revved the engine, the truck just